Norma Clarke reads from Queen of the Wits, a Life of Laetitia Pilkington.

Tickets: £5 (£3 under 18s). "Introducing and reading from her new book, Queen of the Wits, a Life of Laetitia Pilkington, Professor Norma Clarke will discuss the portrait of Jonathan Swift offered by Swift’s intimate friend and first biographer, Laetitia Pilkington. Mrs Pilkington’s Memoirs depicted Swift in his private life and in relationship to others – a form of biography Samuel Johnson would later hail as the most revealing and useful kind." (christiguc)… (more)